December 23rd

Friends, Seasons greetings! Before I embark on this more-serious-than-normal edition of the Lens I want to wish you and yours a beautiful holiday season. Now that that’s over, in case you missed it, the American government has shutdown, our allies feel “betrayed”, “blindsided”,  the Kurds are facing imminent slaughter, the last great protector of the … Continue reading December 23rd

November 21st

Friends, I wanted to catch you before Thanksgiving because if you intend to have fruitful conversations with your relatives about politics you’ll want to read this beforehand. Although, I may be taking a year off from political discourse at family gatherings after calling several loved ones uneducated and ignorant…. they left shortly thereafter. Anyways… let’s … Continue reading November 21st